THE son of Oswestry butcher Mo Battams has spoken of his pride in his father after he passed away last week.

Mo Battams founded M Battams Butchers in Beatrice Street, but died last week on Valentine’s Day.

His son Kevin Battams, along with his sister Kaye, paid tribute to their dad with, who he has worked with for his whole working life, saying he was "just a lovely man".

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“I was incredibly proud to be his son – he used to work here and then years ago with Oswestry Football Club down Victoria Road and he would go down there and help them too,” he said.

“He would do all sorts of jobs there like painting and rolling the grass – he used to love doing that.

“They never won anything though – he lived a full life and used to play darts with the football club lads too.”

Kev said his dad was the same ‘nice guy’ whether he was at work or enjoying himself on the North or Mid Wales coasts.

And he added that he was able to spend some time with his only grandson and that was a clam influence in their lives.

He added: “I worked with my dad for every day of my working life – I used to come back after school and help him.

“But we did lots of stuff outside of work.

“He used to have a caravan based in Towyn and he used to love going to Aberdyfi too.

“That was his exit, his ‘get your head out of work’ thing.

“My dad was a nice guy all the way the way through whether it was work or outside of it.

“He worked hard but it didn’t stress him out.

“Some people are stressy and shout a lot but he was just mellow and chilled anyway, and he was like that as a dad too.

“He was never much of a shouter to be honest but there might have been the odd occasion that might not necessarily had been his fault.

“I’m sure we stressed him out like kids do to some parents.

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“When we used to go up to Towyn, his mate was a wagon driver and he used to get the inner tubes from the wagons, we’d inflate them and then go in the sea.

“We had a great time doing that – very simple.

“He had one grandchild called Arnie who was seven months old but he did get to see him which was lovely.”